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Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.
Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
Studio visits with Australia’s top artists, and unmissable art exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and beyond.
Weekly recipes and meal ideas from our favourite cooks, authors and foodies.
Unique travel destinations, design-led accomodation and day trip ideas in Australia and New Zealand.
GOOD MORNING and get ready for an inspired week on the Guest Blog, as we hear from Petina of I Like You World and Oye Modern, who was super lucky to attend Alt Design Summit just 2 weeks ago in Salt Lake City, USA!
If you are not familiar, Alt Summit is basically the design bloggers’ conference to end all conferences! Grace Bonney of Design*Sponge, Heather Armstrong of Dooce, Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project, Ben Silbermann of Pinterest, Erin Loechner of Design for Mankind and MANY MORE were in attendance this year! For goodness sake. SO. JEALOUS.
You may recall last year we heard from Melbourne's most colourful blogger, Pilgrim Lee of Draw! Pilgrim, who attended Alt Summit 2011 and gave us a stellar round-up of her wonderful time at the conference, learning from some of the world's best design bloggers and meeting lots of new US blog buddies! Jenny and I were supremely jealous at the time, and daydreamed about attending Alt Summit ourselves one year! Sadly another year has passed and we still didn't make it... but luckily for us Petina has put together a fantastic week of highlights from the event! I wonder if any other Australian bloggers went along... do leave a comment and let us know your thoughts if you did!
Petina ran her own fashion boutique and clothing label in Melbourne for 7 years, before moving to Sydney 3 months ago to work as the Marketing Co-ordinator at Oye Modern, a fantastic online jewellery store. Oye Modern was in fact one of our very first sponsors many moons ago when TDF was just a baby blog :) Petina blogs at I Like You World and tweets over here!
Massive thanks to Petina for her Guest Blog this week! I really hope to get to Alt Summit myself next year! Who's with me?!
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